Mary Rankin Swan
Mary Rankin Swan (1865–1944), also Mrs John Macallan Swan, was an Irish portrait artist.
Also recorded as Mary Ann Rankin · Mrs. J. M. Swan
Mary Rankin Swan
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- Name
- Mary Rankin Swan
- Birth Name
- Mary Ann Rankin
- Born
- 1865
- Birthplace
- Ireland
- Died
- 1944
- Known for
- Portraits of Children
- Occupation
- painter
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Mary Rankin Swan (1865–1944), also Mrs John Macallan Swan, was an Irish portrait artist.
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• Name — Mary Rankin Swan • Birth Name — Mary Ann Rankin • Born — 1865 • Birthplace — Ireland • Died — 1944 • Known for — Portraits of Children • Notable Works — Sunbeams, The music Lesson
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Born Mary Anne Rankin in Coleraine, Ireland, in 1865. Her father was Hamilton Rankin of Camdonagh, County Donegal, he was an inspector of waterworks. She married the artist John Macallan Swan in Cork in 1884. She was an artist who specialised in depictions of children and occasionally sculptures. Together, they had two children, John Barye Rankin, an engineer who served as a Naval Volunteer Reserve in the First World War, and Mary Alice, who went on to become a sculptor and medalist. The family lived in London. She died in 1944.
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- 1.Library of Alexandria. Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day. 54–. 978-1-4655-2483-6.
- 2.Mrs J. M. Swan Artist Royal Academy of Arts. www.royalacademy.org.uk.
- 3.Armstrong, Walter. 3. 455-456.
- 4.V&A's collections. Biographical information.
- 5.University of Glasgow History of Art. Mapping the practice and profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951-John Macallan Swan.
- 6.Gazette.
- 7.Lives of the first world war.
- 8.University of Glasgow History of Art. Mapping the practice and profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951- Mary Alice Swan".
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